Brett Morgan, assistant professor; Benjamin Smallheer, assistant professor; Helen Gordon, assistant professor; and Margie Molloy, assistant professor; recently published an article entitled "Starting the conversation: Gender and incivility in nursing education" in Reflections on Nursing Leadership (RNL). 

It is safe to say that the majority of nursing faculty members desire classrooms that are civil and respectful and where professional behavior is the norm. Nursing education is unique in that learning environments extend into multiple and diverse settings, including traditional classrooms, online environments, simulated experiences, and clinical training sites. Strategies for fostering civility in these settings require deliberate effort by faculty as well as students, and they begin with identifying situations where incivility can negatively impact nursing education. 

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